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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Joan Littlewood dressed her soldiers as what to create an alienation effect?
(a) Monsters.
(b) Parrots.
(c) Pierrots.
(d) Monkeys.

2. The author believes the science of theatre building demands studying what it is, which brings about the most what?
(a) Connectedness with the stage and audience.
(b) Vivid relationship between people.
(c) Holiness.
(d) Separation of the spectators.

3. In the third section of the book the author claims, "It is always the ______ theatre that saves the day."
(a) Deadly.
(b) Popular.
(c) Proud.
(d) Honest.

4. What is the only "interesting difference" between the theatre and the cinema?
(a) There is no violence in theatre.
(b) The cinema flashes images from the past.
(c) The cinema shows big stars.
(d) There is no immediacy in the theatre.

5. Which chapter is the most autobiographical to the author?
(a) "The Immediate Theatre."
(b) "The Rough Theatre."
(c) "The Instinctive Theatre."
(d) "The Deadly Theatre."

Short Answer Questions

1. In what show is the climax of the first part one in which the stage action is a scribbling graffiti of war on to vast white surfaces, while a monument is formed to colonialism and revolution?

2. What words does the author refer to as lines from Madame Butterfly?

3. In performance, what is the relationship the author establishes?

4. Whose theatre, "in which the imagination, freed by anarchy, flies like a wild bat in and out of every possible shape and style," has it all?

5. The author writes, "What has not been appreciated sufficiently is that the freedom of movement of the ____ theatre was not only a matter of scenery."

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author say of change and liberation regarding "The Rough Theatre"?

2. What does the author speak of regarding Shakespeare and the Rough Theatre?

3. What is the difference in world view between Brecht and Shakespeare?

4. What does the author describe happening when a Brechtian approach is applied to other works?

5. How does the author approach form and content between the actor and director?

6. What is the rough experience which comes from Marat/Sade?

7. How does Shakespeare embody both The Rough Theatre and The Holy Theatre?

8. What does the author write in regard to the power of laughter in "The Rough Theatre"?

9. In contemporary theatre, what does the author say is the most accessible way to find "holiness"?

10. How does the author approach the concept of liberation with Shakespeare and Brecht?

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